Quotes About Society

He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So

That a society of free men, co-operating under contract, is by far the strongest society which has ever yet existed; that

Every man in society is bound in nature and reason to contribute to the strength and welfare of society. He ought to work, to be peaceful, honest, just, and virtuous. A

Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man? Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer? I

Aristocrats have always had their class vices and their class virtues. They have always been, as a class, chargeable with licentiousness and gambling. They have, however, as a class, despised lying and stealing. They

That there is a code and standard of mercantile honor which is quite as pure and grand as any military code, is beyond question, but it has never yet been established and defined by long usage and the concurrent support of a large and influential society. The

plutocracy would be a civil organization in which the power resides in wealth, in

the State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.

Capital, however, as we have seen, is the force by which civilization is maintained and carried on. The

Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but

The reason why man is not altogether a brute is, because he has learned to accumulate capital, to use capital, to advance to a higher organization of society, to develop a completer co-operation, and so to win greater and greater control over Nature.

The Forgotten Man works and votes—generally he prays—but his chief business in life is to pay.

he hath no cause to complain for being cast out of man's society that gains Christ's presence by the same.

The contemporary American writer is in no way a part of the social and political scene. He is therefore not muzzled, for no one fears his bite; nor is he called upon to compose. Whatever work he does must proceed from a reckless inner need.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. They are the Midwest's open

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.

loneliness is endemic to the human condition, and it is more intense in our society, where we are taught to call our loneliness "freedom of the individual.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.